Charles Bradley Signed Auto OML Baseball JSA d. 9/23/17 1st Ball ever! Rare +DVD

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I met Mr. Bradley after a show at Higher Ground in South Burlington Vermont on 12/14/13. It was COLD and he asked me if I'd like to go on his bus!!! Of course I went! He signed my DVD on the cover and then signed also on the inside and dated it. (2 sigs on the DVD insert).
I then asked him if he ever had signed a baseball.......he said "No" so I asked him to add that on the ball so he wrote "My first baseball Love Charles Bradley".
Not only is this the 1st baseball he signed but I have NEVER seen another. Could possibly be unique!
Signatures are perfect and authenticated by JSA with certs.
I will start this at 1 penny to give everyone a fair shot. USA winner please add .95 P&H for priority boxed with tracking. International please go through Ebay Global.
Thank you!
Bio:
Charles Edward Bradley
(November 5, 1948 – September 23, 2017) was an American singer. After years of obscurity and a part-time music career, Bradley came to prominence in his early 50s. His performances and recording style were consistent with the revivalist approach of his main label
Daptone Records
, celebrating the feel of funk and soul music from the 1960s and 1970s. One review said he "echoes the evocative delivery of
Otis Redding
".
Called "The Screaming Eagle of Soul", Bradley was the subject of the documentary
Soul of America
which premiered at
South by Southwest
in 2012.
Abandoned by his mother at eight months of age, Bradley was raised by his maternal grandmother in Gainesville, Florida. At age eight, his mother took him to live with her in
Brooklyn
,
New York
.
In 1962, his sister took him to the
Apollo Theater
to see
James Brown
perform.
Bradley was so inspired by the performance that he began to practice mimicking Brown's style of singing and stage mannerisms at home.
When he was fourteen, Bradley ran away from home to escape poor living conditions—his bedroom was in a basement with a sand floor—and lived on the streets during the day and slept nights in subway cars for two years.
Later, he enlisted in
Job Corps
which eventually led him to
Bar Harbor
, Maine to train as a chef.
A co-worker told him he looked like James Brown and asked if he could sing; he was at first shy but then admitted that he could.
He overcame his
stage fright
(when a crew member pushed him through the curtains onto the stage) and performed five or six times with a band. His bandmates were later drafted into the
Vietnam War
, and the act never re-formed.
Bradley worked in Maine as a cook for ten years, and then decided to head west, hitchhiking across the country.
He lived in
upstate New York
,
Seattle
,
Canada
and
Alaska
before settling in
California
in 1977.
There, Bradley worked odd jobs and played small shows for 20 years.
He earned extra money doing
James Brown
performances, where he used such stage names as the Screaming Eagle of Soul, Black Velvet and even James Brown Jr.
In the mid '90s, Bradley's mother called him and asked him to move back in with her in Brooklyn so she could get to know him. It was there he began making a living moonlighting as a James Brown impersonator in local clubs under the name "Black Velvet". During this time, Bradley experienced more difficulties, including almost dying in a hospital after having an allergic reaction to
penicillin
, and, in a separate episode, awaking at his mother's house to a commotion as police and ambulances were arriving to the scene of his brother's murder, just down the road from there.
While performing as "Black Velvet", he was eventually discovered by Gabriel Roth (better known as "
Bosco Mann
"), a co-founder of
Daptone Records
. Roth introduced Bradley to Daptone artist and his future producer Tom Brenneck, then the songwriter and guitarist for The Bullets, and later for
Menahan Street Band
, who invited Bradley to his band's rehearsal. Bradley asked that the band simply perform while he made up lyrics on the spot. After writing several songs, Daptone released some of these initial recordings on vinyl starting in 2002.
Brenneck and Bradley chose ten of these recordings to be released as Bradley's debut album
No Time for Dreaming
in 2011.
In the spring of 2012,
Soul of America
, a documentary directed by Poull Brien, debuted at the
SXSW
Film Festival in
Austin
, Texas. Poull Brien first met Bradley when he directed the music video for "The World (Is Going Up In Flames)". This feature film told Bradley's story from his childhood in Florida, to the days of homelessness and heartache, then later his gigs as Black Velvet, and finally ended with him touring and recording at Daptone Records. The film included his performance at festivals around the world.
Bradley's second album,
Victim of Love
came out on April 2, 2013. Bradley's third album,
Changes
was released on April 1, 2016 and featured a cover of the
Black Sabbath
song, "
Changes
". In August 2016 he fell ill and canceled a Canadian tour and his appearance at the Cambridge Folk Festival July 30 (UK), where the band
Darlingside
filled in for him.
Bradley died on September 23, 2017 of
stomach cancer
in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 68. He was surrounded by family and friends, including members of all the bands he worked closely with, according to a press release from his publicist.